The demonstration in Rio reveals not only ideological alignments, but also the workings of an ecosystem that connects global finance, intellectual production, and political mobilization.

It’s worth questioning the moral authority of predominantly Christian Nations like the USA that condemn repression by States of the Muslim world, while employing aggressive policing, surveillance, sexist norms or legislations, and coercive policies domestically or internationally.

If there is only one god with whom to make a covenant, and if He is the sole master of the universe, then the contract is signed under duress.

He only becomes a unique god by virtue of existing among other gods: His importance is affirmed when his worshippers no longer command a kingdom that controls a Temple, but instead need a god sturdy enough to survive without a home and rugged enough to secure his people’s independent existence without any government to support them.

Liberty-washing: the practice of selectively invoking the language of liberty, democratic restoration, or rule of law to legitimize coercive foreign action, while disregarding sovereignty, international legal constraints, or comparable liberties at home.

if the monster exists in the land, then it also exists within us. Folklore and folk stories don’t gloss over that fact.

If our bodies are the altars, our hearts the flame, active things that demand action, then what action can we take to help?

Belém — At COP30, the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon arrived first, before the heads of state, before the buttoned-up delegations, before the promises of energy transition that often end in transcripts of speeches in inboxes.

This was the chant at the protest in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday, on the 31st of October.

The intention behind such work is to breathe life back into the geography of the land. A land which is reduced by capitalism and monotheism into nothing more than a resource to be exploited, an assembly of lifeless objects and landscapes without spirit and meaning in and of themselves.

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The debate around ABBA Voyage is less about whether artificial intelligence was technically used, and more about who gets to define the cultural meaning of these tools—the artists on stage, or the companies designing the chips that process their digital likeness.

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With limited control over technological development or industrial policy, Brazil sees itself in a paradigm of neocolonialism through economics rather than armies.

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Academic art historians have a way of "discovering" artists who they have, themselves, neglected or even casually obscured for decades.

The act of feeling and quietly noticing and acknowledging is something of an act of resistance, of saying yes to living and life.

From Rhyd Wildermuth: The world is a mess and will only get worse. But that world? It isn't our world.